Martha Josephine Adams Armes Obituary

The immense concourse of people attending the funeral, the flowing tears of sorrow and sympathy, were the silent witnesses of the high esteem in which Mrs. Armes was held by the people of the community in which she had lived, loved and sacrificed so long, for she was seventy four years of age. As we noted in our last issue, Mrs. Armes died Wednesday morning, April 22nd, at the home of her son, Mr. Sam Armes, eight miles east of Bells, in district No.1, lingering only a few days after being stricken of paralysis. There was an unusual feeling of deep, profound reverence as we stood beside the coffined body of this mother who had experienced the fearful shock of receiving a message from across the seas that her own soldier boy, Tommy Armes, had been called upon to make the supreme sacrifice on the bloody battle fields of the war in 1918. Who can imagine or describe the deep furrow of sorrow as that fateful message plowed its way through her motherly soul? None except those who have been called upon to pass through a like experience. The wound never healed, she carried it to the grave. Not murmuringly and censoriously, but quietly, patiently, lovingly. Very tender she was cared for in her years of pungent heart suffering by her son Sam and his most excellent wife, "Miss" Cora. A wide circle of loved ones and friends also vied with her children in scattering flowers of beauty and fragrance as life's sun had grown so dim, and the journey so lonely. From early girlhood until she was called "home , sweet home", she was a faithful member of the Methodist church. On Thursday afternoon, April 25th funeral and burial services were held at the Raines cemetery, near Gadsden, by J.C.W. Nunn, assisted by Rev C.C. Newbill. After her body had been tenderly placed between the bodies of husband and son (Tommy"s body was brought back from France) the mound was banked with floral offerings of rare beauty fragrance. We feel keenly the loss of a valued friend. We go weep with the sorrowing ones.

b. 02-21-1850 d. 04-22-1924
wife of James Thomas Armes
mother of Samuel Hiram, Thomas W., Martha Ann, and Mary Ellen
sister of Mary Burton Adams Dungan and William Hiram Adams

Item from the Gadsden news
The Crockett County Sentinel, Friday May 2, 1924

Mrs. Josie Armes a most estimable lady, died Wednesday at the home of her son, Sam Armes, near town. Miss Josie, as we called her, counted her friends by the number she met, as they all loved her. But the life of this good mother I will leave in the hands of the editor who has known her for many years. To the bereaved family we sincerely extend our sympathy.

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